Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
